TWO new exhibitions will be unveiled to the public at The Museum of Dartmoor Life in Okehampton on Monday, March 25.

The new season will see ‘Life at the edge of Empire’ — a display of finds and interpretation of the Roman road and settlement excavated on the outskirts of Okehampton last year.

With funding and support from Devon’s County archaeologist Bill Horner and Cllr Kevin Ball’s locality fund the museum has produced a fascinating insight into the latest addition to Okehampton’s Roman heritage. Museum manager Keri Quertier said: ‘The excavation of the Romansfield site has created a huge amount of interest so it is fantastic for the museum to be given the honour of displaying the finds from the site and we are very excited to share this with our visitors.’

To ensure that as many local people as possible visit the museum to view the display, entry will be free for all from Saturday, April 6 to Saturday, April 13 .

The museum’s gallery will also be displaying ‘Whitehorse Hill: A prehistoric Dartmoor discovery’ — a fascinating exhibition on one of the most important excavations to be undertaken into prehistoric Dartmoor in more than 100 years. The items that were discovered in the cist are of national and international importance and provide one of the best glimpses ever into life in Bronze Age southern England.

Both exhibitions will be supported by the experts involved as part of the museum’s ‘tea and talks’ series.

Jane Marchand, former Dartmoor National Park archaeologist, will be talking about the Whitehorse Hill excavation on Wednesday, April 10 at 2pm, followed in May by Mr Horner who will expand on the extraordinary findings of the Romansfield dig on Wednesday, May 15 at 2pm.